HDD failure warning

Hey there. I was wondering if there's any way to disable the annoying "inc HDD failure" warning that shows up whenever I'm booting my computer up.

Here's a picture of said warning:

To be honest I don't want to backup anything since I've got all my important documents on my thumb drive and the ask me later option just closes the pop-up and doesn't do anything but prolong the warning till the next start up.

Not to be a total sarcastic butt, I think it may be time to replace your HDD. Either that or a reformat and reinstall is in your future. Windows is detecting something very bad with your HDD. I would also take a look at running HD Tune and see what is wrong with it.

I have another HDD ready but I want to use this one till it dies, explodes or whatever. I have all of my important stuff backed up and wouldn't lose anything important if the HDD would die at some point. I just want to get rid of the damn error messages for good.

Disabling the warning (if even possible) is akin to removing the wire from the "Check Engine" light in your car because you don't believe anything to be wrong. The problem may be as simple as a weak sector or faint recording of a critical file. You may be able to prolong the life of your "failing" drive simply by reformatting it and reinstalling the OS. If it fails, it fails, but at least you'll know. And I like the idea (from mp3sgt) of using disk diagnostics to try and identify/isolate the problem. That's my two cents, anyway.

Disabling the warning (if even possible) is akin to removing the wire from the "Check Engine" light in your car because you don't believe anything to be wrong. The problem may be as simple as a weak sector or faint recording of a critical file. You may be able to prolong the life of your "failing" drive simply by reformatting it and reinstalling the OS. If it fails, it fails, but at least you'll know. And I like the idea (from mp3sgt) of using disk diagnostics to try and identify/isolate the problem. That's my two cents, anyway.

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No it's more like the check engine light is a billboard that jumps into your face and speaks like Jar-Jar Binks informing you of a problem with the engine that you fucking know about and don't give a shit about because it's a crash-test car.

That's why I want to disable that warning, this computer is so old and useless that I don't really care what happens to it.

A couple of hours sleep and I have solved my own connection terminated issues on the Xbox 360. It appears that my hunch was correct on this occasion with the issue being around an alert / popup attempting to warn the Xbox360 session of impending harddrive failure based upon SMART data. (Disabling Smart in the Bios had no effect).

I would imagine there is a far more elegant way to do this, but for simplicity I did the following.

Double Click or Properties on this value and set it to disabled. nb. Not configured is enabled by default.

Close the Group Policy Editor, no reboot or reset of services is required. Any Disk / Smart related errors will now simply be written to the log with the end user not given various popups on corrective course of action.

I hope that this help others overcome this problem. I doubt very much that this is the best approach, but at the very least it quickly allowed me to identify the root cause of my connectivity issues.

My closing thoughts are just why exactly is DPS warning Extender Sessions of of S.M.A.R.T. and potentially other faults. These will never be displayed and will obviously lead to Termination of Connections.